Movie mayhem

Actor-director Vincent Gallo and film critic Roger Ebert are in a full-fledged media war.

Gallo fired the first shot after Ebert reported that Gallo had apologized for his widely panned movie "Brown Bunny," which Gallo debuted at the Cannes Film Festival.

"The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon," Gallo told the New York Post. "If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him."

Now Ebert, who says he's lost 30 pounds, quips to the Post that "if Gallo gains 30 IQ points, we'll be even." He added that he's perplexed by the colon curse, but says, "When I had my last colonoscopy, they let me watch it on a little TV, and it was far more entertaining than `Brown Bunny.' "